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It's Official: 'Dope' Breakout to Direct HBO's Anita Hill Movie

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Rick Famuyiwa will direct Kerry Washington in 'Confirmation," with production set for early summer.

It's official: HBO's Confirmation has nabbed its director.

Following prolonged negotiations, Dope breakout Rick Famuyiwa has signed on to helm the premium cable network's Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas TV movie, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Famuyiwa was rumored to be near a deal when THRbroke news of the project in March.

The HBO Films telepic — which will begin production in the early summer — will detail the explosive 1991 Supreme Court nomination hearings (at which Hill testified), that brought the country to a standstill and forever changed the way people think about sexual harassment, victims' rights and modern-day race relations. Scandal star Kerry Washington is attached to play Hill and executive produce.